well, I just acquired a 250 GB SSD and I have a dell latitude laptop (vintage 2013). I know what panel to remove to gain access to the HDD and ram, but my fingers aren't sufficient to find all the necessary bits to remove so that I can install the new drive.
anyone willing to help? I am thinking of running it concurrent to the old style HDD in there (or at least until I can order a second one and have a dual boot SSD setup). -eric On May 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > I have dealt with latitudes for a while. The NVIDIA systems worked great with > hybrid graphics (thanks to bumblebee!) but the one i had with a radeon GPU > lost its gourd any time i tried to use the AMD GPU. I think the drivers are > just better for nvidia in this regard. > > Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again.... > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote: > I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita > to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has > embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it > all works. > Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right > now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware > into the kernel as quickly as possible > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics says the hybrid graphics > parts should be doable. At least that's what I thought you meant when you > said "intel/AMD hybrid". There are also a lot of references to fooling with > various settings ("AHCI mode in the BIOS") to get a spinny-disk + M.2 setup > (hybrid soft RAID?) recognized properly. I don't know for sure though, never > tried to install anything on one of these. > > Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with? > > Yeah, we had many poweredge machines, and only one of them ever had any real > trouble with Linux. I think its hardware was flaky. For every other > machine, just install, configure, and it ran until the {disk, fan, CPU, NIC} > pooped out. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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